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"There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live."

"Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons."

"Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both."

"Although it may serve you well, any strength or skill which is overused can become a limitation when it forces you to constantly be moving and looking for the next best thing. Distractions, interruptions, and incessantly chasing after the next golden ring can become the norm."

"With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement."

"Don't be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up."
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"Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise."

"Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society."

"Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted."

"Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors."

"If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state."

"The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt."
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